for those who don’t know:

snowflake is a project by TOR that allows people to access censored services. Anyone can run a snowflake proxy. I’m using their firefox extension. more details here: https://snowflake.torproject.org/

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      The snowflake proxy acts as a bridge to the tor network at the entry side. If by repercussions you mean risk of exit-node traffic, there are none. It might cost a little bit of bandwidth.

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        There’s the necessary info, thank you! - I’ve heard horror stories about hosting exit nodes, and was immediately spooked this would result in the same issues.

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        so. basically alternative tor entry points you can run in your browser for those who can’t connect directly to the tor network themselves?

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          Indeed. This works because direct connections to the tor network are easily censored, but WebRTC is not (not without a lot of collateral damage at least).

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      I’ve been doing it for quite a few months now, and I haven’t met any.

      it’s basically a WebRTC connection between snowflake extension, and someone using tor. WebRTC is a common medium for peer-to-peer communication, so it can’t be blocked easily. Many popular services use WebRTC. e.g.: Matrix protocol, video conferencing services like jitisi meet, etc.